Hundreds of Layoffs Expected at Yahoo — SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo is planning to lay off hundreds of employees in an effort to increase its profitability, prop up its deflated stock price and narrow the focus of its sprawling Internet portal to a smaller number of key areas, people close to the company said Monday.

Yahoo expected to cut hundreds of jobs — (01-21) 18:03 PST SUNNYVALE — Yahoo Inc. plans to cut hundreds of jobs as part of an effort to refocus the Web portal's faltering business, a source familiar with the matter said Monday. — The layoffs would mark the most aggressive step yet by Jerry Yang …

Microsoft (finally) broadens Windows Vista virtualization rules — Microsoft has lifted its ban on enabling Windows Vista Home Basic and Home Premium in virtual machine environments. — The company announced on January 21 its decision to add the two new SKUs and planned to update its end-user license agreement to reflect the change.

EBay Chief Whitman Plans to Retire — EBay Inc. Chief Executive Meg Whitman is preparing to retire. — In the past few months, Ms. Whitman, who has led the San Jose, Calif., Internet auctioneer since March 1998, has been delegating more daily responsibilities to her lieutenants and is completing …

Blog triumphalism: How blogging changed once journalist's mind — Is this where I get to say, “I told you so"? — Whenever I write about the need for journalists to start blogging in order to really get online journalism, some journosaur pops up with some snark about blogging and how journalism hasn't changed because of the Web.

MacBook Air Unboxing Photos and Wireless Booting — The first unboxing photos for the MacBook Air come from what appears to be a remote Macworld Expo presentation in Japan. The pictures show that they received their demonstration MacBook Air in the retail packaging. Unboxing sequence: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

The Significance of the MyBlogLog API — If you could capture and use the names, ages, genders and demonstrated interests of the specific people who visited your website - would you? A whole lot of people providing services online would. While we've covered the movement …

HBO to Go — Home Box Office, the premium television programmer, is set to launch a new broadband service tomorrow. — Available initially only to cable customers served by the Wisconsin Division of Time Warner Cable, the new service - called HBO on Broadband - will make over 600 HBO movies …

Stuffing Six Million Pages Down Google's Throat — I got two fascinating emails from Jason Hunter over the weekend, both concerning MarkMail, the open source mailing list search engine created by Ryan Grimm and Jason over at MarkLogic. I thought I'd share them, with Jason's permission.

Quantcast Closes $20 million Series B — Web metrics service Quantcast has closed $20 million Series B in a round that included Founders Fund and Polaris Venture Partners. — Quantcast offers a “new media measurement service” that competes with companies such as comScore, HitWise and Alexa.

From signed up to satisfied — Getting new users is easy; keeping them is hard. Join Intercom co-founder Des Traynor as he explains how to bridge the gap between a company's initial traction and sustained success.